The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-02
Coal Ashes for Vines.

A correspondent in VicE's Mooozine
Tor March says: "Twenty years ago I
planted vines in my yard, where I had to
do good deal of filing in, and the ma
terial employed was principally coal ashes.
Wherever the ashes came in contact with
the vines we had the largest crop of the
finest grapes ever saw, the roots seemed
to run riot in the soil to distance of fen
to fifteen feet, and were a mass OF fine
Ulcers. The grapes were in large punches
that crowded each other for room. fine
plump, thin-skined berries, while fruit
on vines from the same aged cnttinos
from the same parent vines, planted in the
natural soil, were late, hard and sour.
My varieties were Concord, and Catawba
and Ives Seeding"
Rdgout Of TenderlOin.-When pur-
chasing the tenderloins take care that the
flesh is firm and of a fresh, rosy color.
Wipe the tenderloins with wet cloth:
cut them in pieces an inch square, and
brown them in pan with two tablespoon
fuls OF freshing dripping or butter. When
they are brown, stir in teaspoonful of
dry -four, and keep stirring until the
Hour Is brown; then cover them with
boiling water. season nicely with salt
and pepper and stir them until the -four
is mixed with the water and a good brown
gravy is formed. Then cover the sauce
pan and let the ragout cook slowly for at
least half an hour.
Cocoanut Cake.-One cupful of sugar,
cupful OF flour. one-hslf teaspoonful of
cream tartar, one. quarter teaspoontul of
soda, one tablespoonful of boiling water.
three eggs, beat the yelks of the eggs
stir in the sugar, then beat the whites to
a stiff froth, then the -four with cream
tartar mixed through it, then the soda
dissolved in boiling water; bake in three
or four cakes in a quick oven. Make an
icing OF the whites of two eggs and six
heaping tablespooptuls of pulverized
sugar; spread the icing on one cake, then
a layer of cocoanut, then icing, then an
other cake, etc.; soak the cocoanut before
using it in little milk.
Tomatoes should never be cooked in
an iron stew-pan, or even in tin; a por-
celain-lined pan, or one made of agate, is
much more preferable Iron invariably
makes the tomatoes acid, and no amount
OF baking-soda can remove the acidity.
Welsh Rarebit.-Here is recipe for
Welsh rarebit that may be new to some.
10 have this dish perfect, it should be
made at the table in a chatting dish, or,
as it is called in New England, blazer"
but it can be made over the fire, care be-
ing taken to have it eaten as soon as
cooked. Gut your cheese into thin slices,
put them in the chatting dish or stewpan,
and cover them with something. Keep
stirring until the cheese melts, then add
spoonful of mustard and a beaten egg
for each quarter of pound of cheese.
Stir over the fire for minute more, and
pour on pieces of toast.
Crate some cheese, season it with
little salt and cayenne pepper, and spread
1T on slices of buttered bread. Place
these in shallow baking dish, and put
it in hot oven just as you begin dinner,
and when the time for dessert comes,
serve on hot dish. These are extreme
ly nice, but after few trials we found
them much improved by the addition of
little mustard, 1--WE used that from our
East India pickle), and sweet oil. An
other variation of this dish is made thus:
Gut some thin slices of stale bread into
rounds or ovals with cookey cutter, and
fry them until lightly Drowned. Let
them drain on paper, and spread grated
cheese seasoned with mustard and pep
per. Set in a brick oven, or before
clear fire, and serve as soon as the cheese
is melted.
Cheese Pudding.-Bread and cheese,
again, form the foundation of the follow
ing cheese pudding. Take equal parts of
grated cheese and fine bread crumbs;
mix thoroughly, and pour on as much
boiling milk as the mixture will absorb.
Add well-beaten egg in the proportion OF
one to each half-pint Of milk used; put
this mixture in a saucepan over the fire,
stirring occasionally till the cheese is
melted. Then put in a CREASED pie dish
and serve Immediately.
Reports to the recent meeting of the
Douglas County, Kan.). Horticultural
Society were to the effect that the apple
crop will fall short this year fully three
fourths, and that orchards which should
have borne 1920 bushels will not produce
over 300 bushels. The reports Of the
small fruits we're quite as discouraging.
Hot sunshine will remove scorch.